question about romeo and juliet

crgwllms wrote:
>
> "A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life,
> Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
> Do with their death bury their parent's strife"
>
> A pair of lovers, fated by the stars (in an Astrological kind
> of way) to meet (cross paths); and also cursed (crossed) by
> those same stars, are going to take their own lives...
> ....their misfortunate and heartbreaking fall, resulting in
> their death, will end their parent's feud.

Actually, I think the "take their life" line is nothing to do with their fated suicides, but a reference to the previous line:

"From forth the fatal loins of these two foes,
(their parents - the Monts and the Caps)
A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their lives."

... which I take to mean that they owe their very existence to their parents' bonking.

Open to interpretation, of course.



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